Hay and grain loader.



Patented Aug. 4, 1914.

4 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

INVENTOR WITNESSES ATTORNEY FHE NORRIS PETERS C0. PHOTO-LITHQ,WASHINGTON. D. C.

D. M. MYERS.

HAY AND GRAIN LOADER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 6, 191a.

Patented Aug. 4, 19%

4 SHEETS-SHIIBT 2.

ATTORNEY WITNESSES THE NORRIS PETERS (IL IHO'I'()-L.I'IH(), WASHINGTON,D (T D. M. MYERS.

HAY AND GRAIN LOADEB.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 6,1913.

l atented Aug. 4, 1914,

4 SHEBTS'SHBBT 3.

'(NVENTOR WITNESSES E eT ATTO R N EY D. M. MYERS.

HAY AND GRAIN LOADER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE6,1913.

1,105,91 6. Patented Aug. 4, 1914 4 SHEETS-SHEET 4.

fl vidMlMyers, INVENTOR WITNESSES BY v. I

ATTORN EY UNITED 1 STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID M. MYERS, OF CHASELEY, NORTH DAKOTA, ASSIGNORTO MYERS MANUFAC-TURING COMPANY, OF FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, A CORPORATION OF NORTH DAKOTA.

HAY AND GRAIN LOADER.

Patented Aug. 4, 1914.

Application filed June 6, 1913. Serial No. 772,134.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID M. MYERS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ohaseley, in thecounty of W Vells and State of North Dakota,have invented. a new and useful Hay and Grain Loader, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention has reference to improvements inhay and grain loaders,and is an improvement upon .the structure shown in Letters Patent No.1,019,344, granted March 5, 1912, upon an application filed by me. Insaid patent there is shown'an attachment for an ordinary hay wagon, oras an attachment for or integral part of any appropriate vehicle,whereby on the progressive movement of the vehicle a loading mechanism1s brought into engagement. with shocks of grain or hay, so that suchshocks are on gaged and lifted as the vehicle progresses and arewhereupon the mechanism becomes latched and only again moves intooperative position at the volition of the operator or driver.

Thepresent invention has to do withimprovements in those .parts of theloading mechanism which directly engage the shock or shocks, while inthe main the operating mechanism whereby the loading devices areelevated and caused to dump their load, may

follow the lines described inthe said Letters Patent.

The invention. will be best understood from a consideration of thefollowing detailed description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, with thefurther understanding that while the drawings show a practicalembodiment of the inventlon the latter is not confined to any strictconformity withthe showing of the drawings but may be changed andmodified so long as such changes and modifications mark no ma terialdeparture from thesalient features of the invention.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a plan view with parts broken away of somuch of the hay and grain loader as has to do with the presentinvention. Fig. 2 is an elevation 1n part in section on the line 22 of Fg. 1. Fig. 3 is a section slmilar to that of Fig. 2, but showing theparts in a different operative position. Fig. 4 is a detail section onthe line 4-4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a detail section on the line 55 ofFig. 1 but drawn finally deposited on the vehicle,

on a larger scale. Fig. 6 is a detail section on the line 66 of Fig. 1and drawn on the same scale as Fig.5. Fig. 7 is a section on. the line7-7 of Fig. 1 and drawn on the scale of Fig. 5. Fig. 8 is a perspectiveview of the jointed end of one of the tines.

Inthe drawings there is shown a vehicle body I mounted upon wheels 2 andthis vehicle body with the wheels may correspond to the structure shownin the aforesaid Letters Patent, wherefore no specific details ofconstruction are herein shown or described, SlIlCG such a showing anddescription would only tend toward confusion as to the presentinvention.

In the present structure thereis a frame made up of side members 3 inunder-riding relation to the wagon body and whichmav be formed of anglemetal having upturned ends 1 at one side of the wagon body terminatingin substantially lateral extensions 5 which may project to one side ofthe wagon body and which support a platform 6 having a centrallydisposed inset recess 7 while to the platform there is pivoted a latch 8having a toothed end 9 movable across the recess 7. The side members ofthe frame 3 support downwardly extending or pendent brackets 10 betweenwhich extends and to which is pivoted, a rock member 11 serving. as ahinge. Fastto and projecting from the rock member 11 is a beam 12 havingan angle or drop portion 13 adjacent to the rock member 11, the partsbeing so proportioned that the beam 12 may be lowered into closerelation to the ground and substantially parallel therewith or may belifted about the axis of the rock or hinge member 11 until the beam 12is substantially upright. The substantially horizontal position of thebeam 12 is shown in Fig. 2 and the upright position is shown in Fig. 3,in which latter casethe beam 12 enters the recess 7 and is engaged bythe nose end 9 of the latch lever 8, whereby the beam 12 is held in theupright posltion to be released therefrom at the will of an operator bymeans of a connecting link 14 leadin to a lever 15 at the front of thewagon body, which lever may be under the control of an operator.latching and releasing structure may follow the lines disclosed in theaforesaid Letters Patent, and hence is only generally shown in thedrawings hereto attached, and needs no further description.

The

The beam 12wliich may be in the form of a metal pipe ofsuitable size, ormay be of any other suitable structure, butpreferably of metal, is ofsufficient length to extend'an appropriate distance to one side of thevehicle and constitutes the support and carrier for the shock engagingand elevating means Which so far as the genera]. operation is con-'cerned may be similar to the like structure of the aforesaid LettersPatent, but in accordance with the present invention this shock engagingand elevating means differs in numerous particulars from the disclosureof the aforesaid patent and constitutes one part of the presentinvention.

At spaced points on the beam or bar 12 there are secured clips 16, 17,which may form parts of respective brackets 18, 19. Fast to the bracket19 by bolts 20 or otherwise is a bar 21'to which near respective endsthereof are attached corresponding ends of 'a'runner or shoe 22 ofappropriate size and shape to'bear upon the ground when the beam 12,islowered and support the correspondingend of the beam, this being theouter end of the beam or that end 7 most distant from the vehicle. Thebracket 18 is fast to a bar 23 at a point about mid- 7 way of the lengththereof, and the corre- 'sponding ends of the bars 21 and 23. are

formedwith enlargements 24 through which 1 are produced holes serving tosupport, and

in which are mounted the ends of a rod or pipe 25 held therein bycotterpins 26 or in any other appropriate manner preventing longitudinalmovement of this rod in the supports or bearings 24. At any suitablepoint, but preferably about midway of. :the rod 25 there is securedthereto an arm 26' by means of a clip 27 which may'form part of the armand'b'e clamped to the rod by a bolt '28 or in any other appropriatemanner. Fast at one end'to the end .of the arm 26-reother end of thespring is made fast to the beam 12, the tendenoyof the spring beingtobolt 31 which may serve as a fastening means for an arch member 32rising from the respective bars 21 and 23 near the .eyes

' e 24 and extending across the space between the bars 21 and 23' at asuitable height above the level of the beam 12 when the latter is'inhorizontal position; Secured at intervals along the yoke portion. of thearch 32 are clamp blocks 33 each held to the yoke by a hook bolt 34traversing the block 33 and provided with a holding nut 35. These blockshave eye portions 36 on opposite sides N motefrom the rod 25'i'sa'spring 29 and the 'guides as will presently appear. The yoke portionsof the guides 37 are farther from the vehicle body than the eye blocks33 and, moreover, considering the beam 12 as horizontal these guides 37rise from the beam 12 9 toward the yoke 32 which is back of the beam 12.These guides, therefore, have a slant to the rear and toward thevehiclebody from the beam 12..

Produced through therod or pipe 25 is a series of passages designed toreceive angle necks 38 each projecting from a sleeve 39, the neck beingtraversed by a cotter pin. 40 or other suitable'means for holding theneck to the r0d25 against escape, but stillpermittin'g arotation of thesleeve- 39 about the longitudinal axis of'th'e neck, which latterprojects from the sleeve at substantiallyright angles to thelongitudinal axis of the sleeve. Traversing eachsleeve 39 is an angleextension 40 at one end of a tine 41, this angle extension being held inthe sleeve by a cotter pin 42 or in" any other appropriate mannerpermitting the time 40 to move in the sleeve 39 about the longitudinalaxis thereof" with the extension 40' serving as a pivot. The tines areelongatedand terminate. in points 43 which. maybe in the nature ofstabbing: points and each tine is carried over the beam 12 through thespace between a respectivepair of guiding rods '37. The

pivot or angle necks38 are sorelated to the guiding. rods 37 that whenthe tines 41 are resting on the beam 12 and the latter is hori-.zontaland the sleeves'37"are all beneath or in under-riding relation tothe rod 25, the

stantially parallel to the length-of the vehicle body, so that the tinesall point directly forward.

The bar 23 carries hinges 44 to which is secured a board 45, normally inan approximately upright position when the beam 12 is horizontal,although inclining somewhat toioo ward the vehicle, but capable ofyielding in r the direction of the vehicle, since it is sustamed in .theapproximately. upright posi- 'tion by a'spring 46 made fast at anappro-- priate point to the rod 25. Connected at one end to the clip 17by an eye bolt 47 or;

otherwise, is a link' 48 extending across the series of tines 41 abovethe same and at the otherend connectedto a-strand 49carried" about aguide-pulley 50; This strand is car ried to approprlate mechanism whichserves to tr1p parts acting to set the elevating derot in tines are allin parallel relation and sub- I vices in operation, so that when a shockis engaged by the tines 41 and passes along the tinesuntil the link 18is engaged, the latter will act upon the strand 49 to bring about theoperations mentioned and which are fully described in the aforesaidLetters Patent.

Fastto the rockmember 11 is an arm 51 extending therefrom at an angle,nearly a right angle, tothe length of the extension 13 of the beam 12.This arm 51 has its free end connected to thebeam 12 by a brace rod 52and the construction is such that a force applied to the arm 51 willtend to raise the free end of the beam 12., There is, however, fast tothe beam 12 an arm or bracket 53 having a strand 54L secured theretoandrising to a suitable height on the frame of the vehicle, and from thencepassing over direction changing pulleys 55 and 56 to certain mechanismshown and described in the aforesaid Letters Patent for causing theelevation of the beam 12 and also for permitting it to drop. a To easethe lowering move ment of the beam 12 and to also facilitate the liftingof the beam the arm 51 is provided with a traveler 57 connected to oneend of a stout spring 58, the other end of which is made fast to abracket 59 beneath the bOdy of the vehicle. The arrangement is such thatas the beam 12 is turned on its hinge support to the elevated positionthe spring 58 acts with increasing leverage thereon due to the movementof the traveler 57 along the arm 51, while as the beam 12 is lowered thetraveler approaches the pivot or hinge of the beam while the spring 58is being extended, thus reducing the leverage of the spring: as theextension becomes greater. The action of the spring 58 is nearlynullified by the time the beam 12 reaches its lowermost position andhence there is provided a second spring 60 which may be fast at one endto the bracket 59 and at the other end is fast to a pivoted link61 whichmay be secured to the arm 51 at a suitable distance from the hinge orpivot support of the beam 12, wherefore the spr'ng 60 is always activeto approximately its full force under the degree of tension to which itis placed and therefore it aids materially in easing the loweringmovement of the beam 12. and parts carried thereby, as well ascontributing to the raising of the beam 12.

The raising of the shock engaging and elevating means is caused bytheprogressive movement of the vehicle acting upon the rope or cable 5& ina manner shown and described in the aforesaid Letters Patent, and,therefore, neither shown nor described in the present application. Thelower-ingot the shock engaging and elevatingmeans toward the ground isaccomplished by gravity,

force required for this to the bar or rod 25,

. but this movementis resisted by the springs 58 and 60, the latterbeing capable of resisting to near the full extent of the force ofgravity acting upon the device during the fall of said device.

hen the shock engaging and elevating means are in active position, shownin Figs. 1 and 2, the tines {t1 are nearly or quite horizontal with therod 25 so situated that the pivot su :)ports made up of the sleeves 39and necks 38 are in underriding relation to the rod, the front of thoseportions of the tines where projecting through the lower ends of theguides 37, resting on the beam or bar 12. In this position of the partsthe tines or stabbing members 41 will engage a shock and enter the sameuntil the shock reaches thelink 18, whereupon the inertia of the shockcauses through the rope or cable 45) the tripping of certain mechanismfully shown and described in the aforesaid Letters Patent to connect therope or cable 5 st to a winding mechanism, also shown in said Lettersgether with the shock already engaged, such lifting motion being abouttllCaXlS of the pivot support 11.. until the beam 12 is. nearly upright,and these ends of the guides 37 which are upper most when the shockengaging device is horizontal, begin to assume a position lower than theparts fast to the beam 12. The tines are loosely to the bar 25 so thatthe weight of the shock acting upon the tines tends to cause the latterto travel along the guides 37 toward the then lower ends, thus swingingthe shock about the pivot connections of the tines and the longitudinalaxis of the bar 25toward the rear of the vehicle and at the same timethe tines move downwardly in the then declining guides until they reachthe clips 33, by which time the tines themselves decline at suchananglethat the shock will readily gravitate therefrom into the vehicle.So far as the general action of the tines is concorned, it is similar tothe action of the tines shown and ters Patent, but in the structure ofthe pres ent application the pivot supports of the tines have movementintwo axes with respect and also a movement about the longitudinal axis ofthe bar, so that the pivoted ends of the tines have movements aboutthree axes and not only providing a support for the rear ends of thetines, but one of great flexibility and the spring 29 yields to theweight of the shock carried by the tines, as the latter move toward theclips 33, thus permittin the rocking movement of the bar or rod 2:), butthe reaction of the spring 29 returns the bar or red 25 to its normalposition when the tines arerelieved from the weight of the shock ofgrain.

What is claimed is:- V 1. A shock loading attachment for vehicles Thismovement continues 1 described in the aforesaid Let Patent, to lift theshock elevating means, toa and universally connected comprising a shockengaging and elevating 'means movable 1n action from a substanto ,all'the tines at the'ends thereof remote from the stabbing ends andcomprising a rod and to the beam for normally constraining therod toward(one limit of lts movement,

' the rear ends of the tines have pivot connections 'movable on an axisdiffering ifromthat of v rod orbar mounted for movement about a remotefrom its stabbing v p angle, and a pivotal connection for each ltineangle, and a pivotal connection for each tine comprisinga sleeverecelving the angle end nected thereto at spaced points, a rod or barposition to a substantially and having stabbing tines and a support forto which the latter I movable on each of two different axes andsaidsupport being movable as a whole upon another axis.

2. A'shock loadingattachment for vehicles, comprising a shock engagingand elevating means provided with stabbingtines each provided at therear end with an angle extension, a pivot'support for each tine havingmeans for the pivotal mountingof the angle extensionof the tine, and inturn pro vided with an extension constituting a pivotal mountin and asupporting member common to al the tine supports and .provided' withsupporting means in which it is tially horizontal upright position forengaging the shock,

the axialmovements of for the tines. I A shock loading attachment forvehicles comprising a shock engaging and elevating means provided withstabbing tines for-engaging the shock, a support common to all the tinesat the ends thereof remote from the stabbing ends and comprising a thepivotal supports longitudinal axis, each tine having the end end turned.at an comprising a sleeve receiving the angle end of a tine. and'havinga member extending at an angle therefrom and provided with a pivotalbearing 'in-the rod or bar. a

4. A shock loading, attachment for vehicles comprising a shock engagingand elevating means provided with stabbing tines for engagingthe shock,a support common or barmounted for movement about a longitudinal axis,each time 'havlng the end re-' mote from its stabbing endturned atran ofa tine and having a member extending at an'angle therefromand providedwith a piv-' otal bearing in the rod or bar, said rod or bar havingelastic means for constraining, it in one direction of movement aboutits longitudinalaxis.

5. A shock loading attachment for vehicles comprising a'b'eam connectedto the vehicle for movement from a substantially horizontal position toa substantially upright position, said beam having bars conmounted'inthe first-namedbars for movement about its longitudinal ax1s, an armfast to said bar, a spring connected to the arm beam,

' thereto.

shock engaging ing anarch member connected to the first-named barsadjacent the second-named bar, slanting guides extending between thearch memher and the beam, and tines each pivotally connected at one endto the second-named bar and extending through the guides inthe directionof travel beyond the beam. V

6'. A shock loading "attachment for vehicles comprising a beam}connected to the vehicle for movement from a substantially horizontalposition to av substantially up right position, 'saidbeam' having barsC011, nected thereto at spaced points, a rod or bar mounted in thefirst-named bars for movement about its longitudinal axis, an arm fastto said bar, a springconnected to the arm andto the beamfor normallyconstraining the rod toward one-limit of it s movement, an arch memberconnected to the firstnamed bars adjacent the second-named bar, slantingguides extending between the arch member and the beam, and tines eachpivotally connected at one end to named bar and extending through theguides in the direction of travelbeyond the each tine having its rearend bent at an angle and the pivotal connections for the tines eachcomprising a sleeve receiving the bent end of the tines and'having anangle extension projecting through the" second-named rod or barin'pivotal relation the second-.

7. A shock loading attachment for ve.

hicles comprising a frame structure having a pivot support ont'hevehicle and movable; about the" pivot support to either a substantiallyhorizontal upright position with relation to the vehicle, stabbingfingers or tines movable by'gravity toward a pendent position when theframe is in an upright position, andincline d guides for. the stabbingfingers mounted on the frame, the stabbing fingers having a commonmounting carried by the'fram'e and movable with respect to the frameabout mounting. v Y

'8. A shoclr loading attachment for vehicles comprising a framestructure having a pivot support withthe'vehicle and movable about thepivot support to either a substan-' tially horizontal position or asubstantially upright positionwithrelation to the vehicle,

and shock engaging tines hingedly connected at the butt ends to theframe and movable by gravity toward a pendent positionwhen the frame isin an upright position, and

stabbing fingers mounted on the frame,"the hmge connections inclinedguides for the ofthe stabbing fingers with the. frame hav-,

a common mounting carried by the an axis longitudinal to said ios frameand'movable with respect to the frame about an axis longitudinal to saidmounting, and also provided with an elastic COIlIlGCtlOIl', with theframe co-nstralnmg the lac mounting toward one limit of movement andyieldable to permit the mounting to turn toward its other limit ofmovement.

9. A shock loading attachment for vehicles comprising a shock engagingand elevating means movable from a substantially horizontal to asubstantially upright position and the reverse, a spring connectedthereto and constructed to resist the lowering movement of the shockengagingmeans, and-another spring also arranged to resist the loweringmovement of the shock engaging means and mounted with relation theretoto vary its action upon said means in accordance with the relativeposition of the latter.

10. A shock loading attachment for vehicles comprising a frame in fixedrelation to the vehicle, another frame pivoted to the first-named frameat one side of the vehicle and movable to a substantially horizontalposition or a substantially upright osition, stabbing tines carried bythe secon -named frame and movable by gravity into shock engagingposition when. the second-named frame is horizontal and into dischargingposition when the said frame is upright, a spring connected to thepivoted frame in substantially constant relation thereto and resistantto the loweringmovement of the frame, and another spring'connected t0the second-named frame in changeable relation thereto and resistant tothe lowering action of the frame, both springs being also con nected tothe first-named frame.

11.. A shock loading attachment for vehicles comprising a frame movableto either a substantially horizontal or a substantially uprightposition, said frame including a beam having an angle portion, a hmgeconnection at the extremity of the angle portion.

named angle extension, another spring con nectcd at one end to thevehicle and at the other-end connected to the second-named angleextension and movable therealong toward and from the hinge, meansconnected to the beam for 'aising and loweringthe frame, and stabbingtines carried by the frame of which the beam forms a part and providedwith hinged connections to said frame formovement to substantiallyhorizontal. active position or toward a pendent discharge position.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have heretoaffixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

DAVID M. MYERS.

Witnesses WV. E. SOHBEYER, MORRIS T. BAKER.

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